Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overrate
Participle: overrated
Gerund: overrating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overrate |
| you | overrate |
| he;she;it | overrates |
| we | overrate |
| you | overrate |
| they | overrate |
Perfect
| I | have overrated |
| you | have overrated |
| he;she;it | has overrated |
| we | have overrated |
| you | have overrated |
| they | have overrated |
Past
| I | overrated |
| you | overrated |
| he;she;it | overrated |
| we | overrated |
| you | overrated |
| they | overrated |
Pluperfect
| I | had overrated |
| you | had overrated |
| he;she;it | had overrated |
| we | had overrated |
| you | had overrated |
| they | had overrated |
Future
| I | will overrate |
| you | will overrate |
| he;she;it | will overrate |
| we | will overrate |
| you | will overrate |
| they | will overrate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overrated |
| you | will have overrated |
| he;she;it | will have overrated |
| we | will have overrated |
| you | will have overrated |
| they | will have overrated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overrate |
| you | overrate |
| he;she;it | overrate |
| we | overrate |
| you | overrate |
| they | overrate |
Perfect
| I | have overrated |
| you | have overrated |
| he;she;it | have overrated |
| we | have overrated |
| you | have overrated |
| they | have overrated |
Imperfect
| I | overrated |
| you | overrated |
| he;she;it | overrated |
| we | overrated |
| you | overrated |
| they | overrated |
Pluperfect
| I | had overrated |
| you | had overrated |
| he;she;it | had overrated |
| we | had overrated |
| you | had overrated |
| they | had overrated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overrate |
| you | would overrate |
| he;she;it | would overrate |
| we | would overrate |
| you | would overrate |
| they | would overrate |
Perfect
| I | would have overrated |
| you | would have overrated |
| he;she;it | would have overrated |
| we | would have overrated |
| you | would have overrated |
| they | would have overrated |
Imperative
| you | overrate |
| we | Let's overrate |
| you | overrate |
Verbs conjugated like 'overrate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overrate'
over-rate,
overdate,
overhate,
overrake,
aberrate,
onerate,
operate,
over-awe,
overaerate,
overage,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *úp
3. Proto-Indo-European *-er
4. Proto-Indo-European *upér
5. Proto-Germanic *uber
6. Old English ofer-
7. Middle English over-
8. English over-
9. English rate
10. English overrate
11. From over- + rate.
Sample Sentences
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The vicissitudes of the weather may be responsible for more suffering among the lower animals than in the case of man, but we who live in England are perhaps inclined to overrate the amount of inconvenience occasioned to the world at large by this cause. [1886 August, Briggs Carlill, “Are Animals Happy?”, in The Nineteenth Century:]
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Vance and Martin note another problem with retrospective analysis of sexual patterns in a case in which a person has been diagnosed with AIDS or ARC. There may be a tendency for diagnosed people to overrate their sexual encounters in the belief that promiscuity is the cause of AIDS, thereby explaining or rationalizing their illness. [1985 February 9, Cindy Patton, “Heterosexual AIDS Panic: A Queer Paradigm”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 3:]